Cazal Couture Part 2!

Rodney O & Joe Cooley rockin' 955's

Cazal Couture Part 2

By an inter Planetary fluke we were working on an article on Cazal glasses when our brother Dynomite of BREAKS FOR DAYS BEATS FOR WEEKS beat us to it! So after letting him know (as biting is illegal, against the law), and in a show of B-Boy solidarity we decided to link the two! Here is part 2! Fooor you!


BREAKS FOR DAYS BEATS FOR WEEKS Cazal Couture Part 1

As many people are aware, Cazal were standard wear for true B-Boys & B-Girls, but since artists like Rick Ross, Mos-Def, Jay-Z, Kanye West have been sporting them of late, the prices are going through the roof on e-bay . The Kool Skool thought we would have a brief look at the hottest shades in Hip-Hop!


Kanye and the film Rocknrolla bumped the price up on these 858's!


Jamal Shabazz Brooknam representer Author and early Hip-Hop/Streetsyle documentor sportin' Cazzies
http://www.jamelshabazz.com
(The Kool Skool has interviewed the man himself and will be putting it up soon!)


Slick from Dissizit in Cazal Targas, and friend in classics in the legendary Stockwell Graffiti Hall Of Fame
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MC Duke "I'm Riffin'!" in classic clear DMC style. For a great interview with MC Duke check the DISCO SCRATCH here


Even Minister Louis Farrahan is known for his slick eyewear!


Carl Zalloni and the fan behind the Dopest Cazal site www.dopecazals.com

Some from The Kool Skool Vaults!


Kool Skool Vision


Arm


Arm


1980'stylin'


1980'stylin' side


Dangerously Timmy Mallet like


2005 era


Arm 3


2005 era well worn!


Even rock cheap replicas


Oreo Yo! ID Braps characters- Rodney O & Tim Dog
by Shucks One ID/UZN 2009


Rodney O by Shucks One ID/UZN 2009 Detail
More examples of Cazal in Shucks Graffiti here and here

Rare Cazal Catalogue


$3,4900 for a just a catalogue!!!

E-bay is crazy for Cazies, here is a 80's era opticians catalogue


904


Inner book


623


859

163


857


633

951 Has A Posse


B.V.S.M.P. and 951's
Buying records for the MC's eyewear is as disappointing as buying albums for the Graffiti covers....


951 has a Posse!

Wisely Cazal has decided to reissue some of their classics, and even created a 951 website


9014


6001 Original Stylin'


THE NEW DANCE SHOW - DETROIT
Check the shades & moves


You want to get the sick new Cazzies in London? Check out the great people at Clear Vision, they have the widest collection of Cazals ever!

CLEAR VISION
428/430 COLDHARBOUR LANE
BRIXTON,
LONDON
SW9 8LF
UNITED KINGDOM
PHONE +44 20 773 736 60
or check here

Crime Does Pay! RocknRolla

"You can have it as youringtone!"

Shucks One (ID) & Dane (VOP) painted these in Clapham South London last year, they were to support the new Guy "The Tweed-Geez" Richie Wideboysplation movie "Rocknrolla".

The project consisted of live street painting, and are based the artists interpretations of what a painting features that in the film looked like. 6 artists did them all over London. Others included Insa, Solo One VOP, Panik ATG and others.


We bashed them out and it was fun, in the middle of the day a tiny Fiesta van honked at us and out popped my good friend Char DTB, which was hilarious cause anyone who knows him, knows he's massive, and Fiesta Vans look like dinky clown cars.


Incidental product placement


Danger Danger! Caution tape, high-vis jackets, "HelfnSafety ruined this game"

My peace was called Revelation 1:14, after the chapter in the bible, about the end of the world. In Rocknrolla, the Russian Oligarch character has a painting which is part of the sub-plot. In the movie you only see the back of the painting, but as the character is an ex-Soviet Billionaire, I assumed he probably identifies with the Russian Orthodox Church, so I painted a Byzantine style Icon.


Revelation 1:14

Daniel 7:9 "I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His vesture was like white snow And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire."

Daniel 10:6 "His body also was like beryl, his face had the appearance of lightning, his eyes were like flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a tumult."



I'm really interested in Orthodox Icons, but people talk alot about how, in Islam it is blasphomous to make artistic interpretations of living things, as it is raising yourself to the status of God, thus the arrogance of man.


Illuminated Turkish (Ottoman?) Ko'ran



Mohammed (face covered) praying at the Kaaba in Mecca. From the Siyer-i Nebi, a Turkish epic about Mohammed written by Mustafa, son of Yusef of Erzurum; original manuscript completed in 1388 A.D.; illustrated during reign of Murad III and completed in 1595 A.D. Currently housed in the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul. For more images click here

But in the Jewish Talmudic tradition it is the same, and as Christianity is from that tradition and number 2 of the 10 Commandments deals with what, "Graven Images", surely it is the same? There is discussion of the early Christians destroying Icons, surrogates and intermediates to God, and of course the Reformation dealt with much of the same issues.


The artist is unknown.
Date: 16th c.
Location: Dionysiou Monastery, Mt. Athos, Greece

Exodus 20:3-6 "You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments."

During the day an old Greek guy came by and he got a bit heated and was asking why I had painted the character like that, "why is he black?" I explained the concept, and how in Revelations it mentions skin of polished bronze, hair of pure wool etc, and that I had painted it in the style of Orthodox Christian Iconography, and he kind of got it. But along with him, 5 Crack heads, a slew of builders yelling out of Transits and anyone else with an opinion we got the obligatory, "Oi Mate missed a bit", "You call that art bruv" and so on. Anyone who has ever painted in public knows the deal, every ones an aspiring art critic.


Danes broad ballin'

2 Days later someon stole Dane's painting, and a day later mine went too. So, if you know any Clapham yuppies with one of these paintings, shake their hand, then tump 'em in the Drummand!!! Ebay mutha"$^%"s!


Vopstars website
Rocknrolla Website

Interesting Blog about Icons